James C. Morgan
Applied Materials, Inc.
Chairman
Mr. Morgan has been Chief Executive Officer of Applied Materials from 1977 until 2004 and Chairman of the Board since 1987. Prior to joining Applied Materials as President in 1976, he was a Senior Partner with WestVen Management, a private venture capital partnership affiliated with the Bank of America Corporation. Prior to WestVen, he was with Textron, a leading diversified manufacturing company.
Mr. Morgan is a recipient of the 1996 National Medal of Technology for his industry leadership. From 1996 to 1997, Mr. Morgan served on the Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy. From 1988 to 1992, he served on the National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors.
Mr. Morgan is a member of the Board of Directors of Cisco Systems, Inc. He serves as a board member of the Congressional Economic Leadership Institute (CELI) and the National Center for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), a member of the Council on Competitiveness, a member of the Chairman’s Circle of the Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC), and an advisory board member for the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa Clara University.
Co-author of the book, “Cracking the Japanese Market: Strategies for Success in the New Global Economy,” he earned a B.S.M.E. and an M.B.A. from Cornell University.
Applied Materials, Inc.
Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT), the world’s largest supplier of products and services to the global semiconductor industry, is one of the leading information infrastructure providers. Applied Materials enables Information for Everyoneä by helping semiconductor manufacturers create the more powerful, portable and affordable chips that are the true engines of the new economy, and are opening the Information Age to all.
As a core information infrastructure company, Applied Materials innovates and commercializes the processing and manufacturing technology that helps semiconductor manufacturers produce the world’s most advanced chips.
Founded in 1967, the Company has become the global leader in the expanding semiconductor equipment industry, growing at over a 30 percent CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) for three decades.
To support customers around the world, Applied Materials employs more than 16,000 people in over 90 locations throughout the United States, Japan, Korea, Israel, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and The People’s Republic of China.